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TEXT: YUKTI V. AGARWAL On a characteristically sultry, overwhelmingly humid day, armed with a flask of ice-cold water and a few protein bars, we attempted to navigate what felt like an impossible amount of art in a single visit. Across studios, classrooms, corridors, and exhibition spaces, we encountered an astonishing range of practices: works grappling … Continued
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In a world where women’s labour largely remains invisible, artist Afrah Shafiq reimagines the humble sampler, an often hidden piece of cloth used by countless women to practice embroidery patterns, as a way to record and map embroidery traditions, arithmetic logic, and coded languages embedded in motifs across time and cultures, in a deeply personal … Continued
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Deepak Kumar welcomes us into a studio he once only imagined. Tucked within Kaladham, the space serves as both a home and a laboratory
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India-based studio Morii Design works between craft, intuition, and collective memory. In its practice, embroidery becomes language, time unfolds through process, and inherited knowledge is made present through the hands of many.
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In this special conversation marking 75 years of Triveni’s journey, we sit down with Amar Shridharani, Honorary General Secretary of Triveni and son of its founder, who has preserved and extended his mother’s mission with impeccable commitment. In a candid dialogue, Amar reflects on legacy, architecture, openness, and what it means to sustain a space that remains at once intimate, experimental and fiercely true to its founding vision.
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Artist Amol K Patil welcomes us into Project 88, where A Forest of Remembrance unfolds as a space of listening—carrying histories of labour, movement, and resistance across the city.
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Arun B. grew up in Kadirur, a village in Thalassery, Kannur District in Kerala, which has a deep connection with the origin of the oldest martial art Kalaripayatu–Kalari and Theyyam–with sounds of chenda, their rituals, chants, colour, dialogues, and materials that they use to create an environment. Later, when he moved to Baroda, the shift … Continued
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New York based artist, Ghiora Aharoni works between cultures, scripts and lived histories. In his practice language becomes form, time bends and inherited memory is made present.
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Founded in 2014, SHED operates as a space for enquiry rather than a conventional studio, moving fluidly across furniture, objects, play systems and small architectural works. The studio’s work occupies a territory between the domestic and the speculative, recalibrating familiar forms—tables, game boards and storage pieces—through material experimentation, precise craftsmanship and a questioning of convention. … Continued
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For Hyderabad-based artist Farhin Afza, family archives are not inert records but living sites where memory, comfort, and violence collide
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Ahead of his presentation at India Art Fair 2026, presented through Galerie Maria Wettergren, we speak to Dhruv Agarwwal about nostalgia as a driving force behind his design language, the role of scale in his work and what it means to build contemporary relevance without disconnecting craft from its source
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Artist Nilima Sheikh welcomes us into her home and studio in Baroda, where painting becomes a way of carrying stories across time, place, and memory.
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Artist Sudarshan Shetty welcomes us into his Mumbai studio, where objects, images, and constructed worlds are brought into careful relation.
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Artist Shreni works with digital systems and speculative ecologies to uncover the invisible infrastructures that sustain urban life. This film traces her process—from foraging data and texture in Mumbai to building a large-scale video installation that imagines what it might look like when a city remembers.
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Sri Lankan – born artist Dumiduni Illangasinghe works slowly, attentively, and with deep emotional precision. Currently based in Varanasi, Illangasinghe moves between a formal studio at Banaras Hindu University and temporary, improvised setups in her dorm room. The shift between these spaces mirror her practice – oscillating between material experimentation and inward reflection, between structure and vulnerability.
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In this BMW Artist Film, Shailesh BR invites us into his world of invention and satire, to challenge belief, choice and the structures that quietly govern our lives.
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Hamburger Bahnhof presents, What Still Holds, Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition that centerstages the work titled, Truth, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. The exhibition includes oversized letters alongwith artworks that question the mechanisms that preserve or obscure truth, and the sculptural installations reveal collective progress that depends on protecting and interrogating truths. … Continued
March 27, 2026-January 3, 2027
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
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India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme, with Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art (Tokyo/Delhi), presents (Mal)functions of Light curated by Wribhu Borphukon. Light arrives through fractured presences—reflected, refracted, interrupted. It is often a residue of systems at work: optical, corporeal, personal or political. The artworks in the exhibition considers light and its instruments … Continued
January 31, 2026-January 31, 2027
Embassy of Sweden, 4-5, Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India
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A culinary and cultural tasting experience that traces the journey of the date across the Indian subcontinent. Entering through the Malabar coastline, the date travelled inland along trade routes, finding place in regional kitchens, ritual practices, and royal cuisines before arriving in cultivation landscapes in contemporary Rajasthan. This experience brings those movements into focus through … Continued
February 1, 2026-February 1, 2027 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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What happens when we stop treating digital tools as mere instruments of reproduction and start recognizing them as sites of epistemological rupture? NewArtX positions itself at the contested intersection of art and technology, not to celebrate innovation uncritically, but to examine how digital mediums fundamentally support artistic production, circulation, and meaning-making. The artist-led session invites … Continued
February 1, 2026-February 1, 2027
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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What happens when you stand around an artwork instead of rushing past it? When you begin to notice not just what it shows but what it’s made of, what it resists, and what it refuses to explain? Through playful prompts, material experiments, and hands-on thinking, this workshop invites participants to explore how artworks carry stories … Continued
February 2, 2026-February 2, 2027 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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In our contemporary “throwaway” culture, technology has become a “Black Box”, we use it every day, yet we are completely disconnected from its internal logic. Rishabh Jain’s practice is driven by the fundamental inquiry, “Ye chalta kaise hai?” (How does this work?). This workshop explores the intersection of Repair and Resistance. The Repair (Sculpture): Through … Continued
February 2, 2026-February 2, 2027
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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Gestures, Rituals, Residues brings together a selection of Indian artist films that approach the moving image as an extension of artistic practice rather than narrative cinema. Vakratunda Swaha 35mm, Colour, 21 minutes, 2010 Brihnnlal ki Khelkali / Dancing Othello 16mm, Colour, 18 minutes, 2002 Performing Death DV, Colour, 16 minutes, 2002 Spanning film, video, performance, … Continued
February 2, 2026-February 2, 2027 5:00 pm — 7:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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This session is a practice-based exploration of memory as an active, embodied process. Beginning with sensation like sound, touch, movement, the workshop treats remembering as a form of making that unfolds across past, present, and imagined futures. As part of the ongoing Alchemy of Making inquiry, the body is approached as both receiver and generator: … Continued
February 3, 2026-February 3, 2027 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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The Arts Quiz is conceived as an intellectually rich, fast paced, and visually immersive engagement with the global history of art. Curated and conducted by Aryapriya Ganguly, the quiz aims to celebrate the diversity, depth, and disruptive energies of the arts, spanning classical traditions to cutting edge 21st century practices. The quiz will traverse a … Continued
February 3, 2026-February 3, 2027 6:30 pm — 9:30 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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Through this workshop, the artist will explore how a simple and easily available material—such as concrete—can be used to develop new possibilities in craft and art. Participants will learn how working with concrete can become a tool to express storytelling, personal ideas, and individual observations. Kapil Jangid has been working with concrete for the past … Continued
February 4, 2026-February 4, 2027 11:00 am — 2:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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A two-hour ceramic workshop that introduces participants to the kurinuki carving technique while engaging with ideas of objecthood, archives, and reverence. Through carving a solid block of clay, participants create a unique object/structure — a vessel for safekeeping fragments of their personal archives or an artefact of its own. The workshop draws from the exhibition … Continued
February 6, 2026-February 6, 2027 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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This conversation foregrounds female solidarity across disciplines often coded as technical, invisible, or secondary. Through Alida Sun’s practice, where coding operates as both language and material, women in science and computation are reclaimed as cultural producers rather than peripheral technicians. This dialogue extends through the work of Sunita Bhasin, director of SSMI, whose stewardship of … Continued
February 6, 2026-February 6, 2027 5:00 pm — 6:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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An immersive, beginner-friendly workshop introducing the meditative process of wet felting using both desi oon and merino wool. Participants will learn how loose fibres transform into a sturdy, seamless textile through water, soap, and friction. Rooted in an ancient craft first practiced across Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Kashmir, wet felting carries a deep history of handmaking … Continued
February 7, 2026-February 7, 2027 10:00 am — 11:00 am
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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The participants will get to interact with the kagzis/paper makers from Aurangabad, Maharashtra involved in this centuries’ old tradition of making handmade paper with waste cotton rags and other material. The kagzis will demonstrate the process of making the paper with varied thickness. It will be a hands-on workshop where the visitors will get to … Continued
February 7, 2026-February 7, 2027 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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Kitchen Calls is an intimate workshop by Nivaala where 30 young collectors document their family recipes live, calling grandmothers, capturing stories, and creating a communal cookbook together. The experience begins with nostalgic bite-sized tastings curated by Ikk Panjab, a Delhi restaurant born from a desire to preserve the flavors of undivided Punjab and culinary traditions … Continued
February 7, 2026-February 7, 2027 2:00 pm — 4:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
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This is a curatorial reading programme by Offset Projects that positions the photobook as a critical site of encounter between image, text, and reader. The programme approaches reading as a collective and performative practice, activating the book as a space where narrative, authorship, and visual address are examined. Presented within Triveni Kala Sangam, this 1.5-hour … Continued
February 8, 2026-February 8, 2027 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Todermal Road Area, Mandi House, New Delhi, India
